Neckscarf



UNITED "STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VVILIIIAM A. SPENCER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

NECKSCARF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. $17,584., dated.September 27, 1881.

Application filed July 8, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. SPENCER, ofBoston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Bosom-Scarfs; and I do herebydeclare the same to be described in the following specification andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a frontView, Fig. 2 a top view, Fig. 3 an edge view, and Fig. 4 a rear View, ofa bosom scarf embodying my invention.

The scarf is intended to be worn with either the front or the rear sideof it against the shirtbosom of a person. The front side of it, as wellas one side of the neck-strap, may be of material of a color or designlike or differing from thatofthe rear side of the scarf and the otherside of the neck-strap.

The nature of my invention is duly set forth in the claims hereinafterpresented.

In the scarf there is a single gorget, A, and a set of two aprons oneach side of it, those of one set being shown at B B in Fig. 1, andthose of the other set at C C in Fig. 4. The two aprons of each of thesets cross each other in manner as represented, those of one set beingconnected with or sewed to those of the other set at their outer edges,with the exception that two of theapronsviz., those marked BC-are.extended between and beyond the other twoviz., B and C-to whichthey are or may be fastened. The aprons of each extend obliquely acrossthe gorget, which is'directly between the two sets.

The neck-strap D at one end is extended be-' tween and fastened to theaprons B C, and carried through an opening, b, and between the aprons Band C, (disconnected at their upper jedges to admit of such,) and thenceout from between them at their outer edges, which are there disconnecteda sufficient distance, as

(ModeL) Having hitched the strap upon the spur, the free portions of thestrap may be folded back in rear of the scarf and turned between therear aprons.

The single strap-hitching spur answers for securing the strap wheneither set of the aprons is worn next the bosomof the shirt.

My duplex bosom-scarf, as described, answers all the purposes of twoseparate scarfs, and saves one gorget and one neck-strap, which would berequired in their construction.

In order to prevent the gorget from being soiled or worn by the frontbutton or stud of a shirt collar or band, Icombine with the gorget andthe two sets of curved aprons a shield or flap, E, so hinged orconnected with the gorget at its upper edge as to be capable of beingturned down against either side of the gorget, such shield, while thescarf is in use, extending between the gorget and the said button orstud.

What I claim as my invention is as follows, viz:

l. The combination of the gorget with the two sets of curved apronsfastened to and arranged, as described, on opposite edges of it, andconnected at their outer edges,- and having two of the connected apronsextended between the other two, all being substantially as set forth.

2. The duplex bosom-scarf, substantially as I described, consisting ofthe single neck-strap, the gorget, and the four aprons, arranged andcombined as set forth, and provided with the strap-receiving openings bc and hitching-spur a, arranged as explained. I

WILLIAM A. SPENCER.

Witnesses E. B. PRATT, S. N. PIPER.

